AnUnusualRelic

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Nestlé Waters on trial in France over illegal waste dumps in c/[email protected]
[–] AnUnusualRelic 7 points 14 hours ago

No, but they will get a stern talking to.

Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to the Treasury Department’s payments system. in c/news
[–] AnUnusualRelic 45 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You guys are so fucked.

Is This How Reddit Ends? in c/reddit
[–] AnUnusualRelic 5 points 1 day ago

At least they won't see it happening.

Fighter jets scrambled from Alaska and Canada as Russian warplanes in Arctic... in c/[email protected]
[–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 1 day ago

Aren't there tariffs on Canadian warplanes?

I tested Motorola’s new budget phone and I'm surprised by what you get for less than $200 in c/[email protected]
[–] AnUnusualRelic 1 points 1 day ago

They're decent phones, but the software support is really poor compared to other brands.

Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening! in c/bmoviebonanza
[–] AnUnusualRelic 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Cheap costume, probably.

Job Interviews in c/comicstrips
[–] AnUnusualRelic 21 points 1 day ago

Their security is too tight.

Google offering ‘voluntary exit’ for employees working on Pixel, Android in c/technology
[–] AnUnusualRelic 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Same, I'm really tired of the annoying Android logic. I wish we could have a logical OS where we could manage our files properly instead of the filesystem mess we currently have with stuff all over the place.

It didn't matter when the phones just had a few megs of storage, but you can carry some serious data on those things nowadays.

Trump warns Canada, Mexico tariffs are coming on Saturday in c/world
[–] AnUnusualRelic 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Apparently he wants the US people to pay between 20 and 100% more for pretty much everything? At least that's my take on it.

I thought she was joking but she isn't. *Stares in CPS*. in c/insanepeoplefacebook
[–] AnUnusualRelic 7 points 2 days ago

You know... stuff.

Lightly ruled in c/[email protected]
[–] AnUnusualRelic 5 points 2 days ago

That's by design. :)

Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down in c/[email protected]
[–] AnUnusualRelic 10 points 2 days ago

It's what happens when all the desktop hardware is designed for just one single OS's ecosystem. Running something else can be touch and go if you happen to have something slightly exotic, even if it has great specs.

It sucks, but it's still how the market works now.

And don't think that the few little companies selling Linux computers change anything. They just hand pick the Windows hardware that's known to work well.

All in all, it has gotten better though. Nowadays, Linux is acknowledged by a lot of hardware companies. They design for Windows, but a number of them will make an effort to release some sort of data, or driver, or something to get the Linux side going. Back in the 90s, it certainly wasn't as easy.

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Loony religions in the US and consequences. (self.AskUSA)
 

I was just watching "American Primeval", when it occurred to me (again) that the US was a place where oddball religions could prosper. Two recent successful examples of very weird ones being Mormons and Scientology (although the latter is a bit less successful lately).

Why is it that weird things catch on so readily in the US?

Of course, the "founders" were people that were kicked out of everywhere else because they were trying to convert them to their extremist religious views (and yet US people are fond of trying to find family ties to them... "hey, my great, great, great grand father was a religious lunatic! But yours wasn't")

So now, Mormons (Jews totally rowed to the US, for some reason, and then Jesus came there, and there were horses, and cities, and there's absolutely no archaeological trace, probably because god) have an astounding foothold despite their creed (I'm saying this because I have read the book of Mormon).

Then there's Scientology, and I don't even know where to begin with that one, given how fucked up it is... If you don't know about it, start with Wikipedia.

Also (probably not finally, there's certainly more) there's the innumerable bizarre Christianity stuff in the US. It's such a mess. I don't even think that most of the evangelical groups are technically Christians.

So apparently,, in the US, anything goes. The holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, blessed be it's meat balls, showed us that. But then what?

The problem with the typical US "let anyone do whatever" is that vulnerable get fleeced at best.

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Is there a way to fix scrollbars in Plasma 6 (self.kde)
 

Plasma 6 changed the way scrollbars work for some reason. Now when you click somewhere with mouse1 the elevator jums there and the window content scrolls accordingly.

Previously, it would scroll by one window's worth in the appropriate direction. If you wanted to jump to a given location, you just used mouse2 (typically the scroll wheel button nowadays). It has worked that way everywhere for literally decades.

After reading the very weird explanation for the change, I can only conclude that the devs don't even know how to use their interface.

Hence my question, is there a setting somewhere to switch back to the traditional behaviour?

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